This is grammatical if there was a previous period in which people were encouraged to guess who it was going to be, then after the reveal âGuessed who just moved in?â is a perfectly valid way to phrase âDid you correctly guess who just moved in?â
I donât know anything about this show and whether there was a previous period of guessing, but my instinct would have been that this is a typo, but now Iâm not sure about that because they also included a question mark at the end
âGuess who just moved inâ Is not a question, but a command, so accidentally putting the verb in the past tense AND including the question mark seems unlikely unless the copywriter really had no idea what they were writing
thekittennapperâ˘
It could be.
It is accepted shorthand for â[Have you] guessed who just moved in?â Itâs slangy and you couldnât write it in an academic paper, but you could say it in a casual context.
Embarrassed-Weird173â˘
Depends. What's the context? Did they tell you to make a guess in the past and are following up to see if you've made a guess yet? If so, it's valid. You're allowed to skip the "have you?" at the beginning.Â
If they're commanding you you guess, then they need to spell it as "guess" and put a period.Â
basetornadoâ˘
It's not. This is more a typo rather than it being a grammar issue.
Something can be grammatically incorrect, but still fine to use.
In this case they just used the wrong word.
Grammar is less important than a typo error.
Opening_Usual4946â˘
Regardless of what anyone else is saying, I was completely confused by this and I think this may not be ungrammatical to some people, but it is entirely ungrammatical to my southern US dialect
ZippidyZayzâ˘
âGuess who just moved in?â Followed by the answer [the people who moved in] is a rhetorical question and is completely grammatically fine, not sure why people are saying itâs not
Unlikely-Associate-4â˘
technically yes, but itâs against the spirit of the rules.
drquozâ˘
No, it should be "guess."
fairydommotherâ˘
It's correct...but i hate it. It's short for "have you guessed who just moved in"
My answer is no. I didn't knkw i was supposed to be guessing. Who are you? Why are you asking? Get off my lawn.
Jaivesâ˘
the verb is correct but the question is a fragment.
MimiKalâ˘
Grammatical but a bit confusing because it's so similar to the very common construction "Guess who just moved in!"
critzzzyproâ˘
For those who want an example of when âGuessed who?â might be used in conversation. Imagine an acquaintance recommends you a murder mystery novel/tv show. This acquaintance is really excited to finally have someone who they can talk to about this story. So they may ask you frequently,
âSo⌠have you guessed who did it yet?â
If they ask you every time they see you, then they can start dropping parts of the question since you know what theyâre asking about.
âGuessed who did it yet?â
âGuessed who did it?â
âGuessed who yet?â
âGuessed yet?â
âGuessed?â (Only if theyâre really annoying)
And now you find yourself questioning whether youâll continue talking to them after going through this.
Basically, itâs done when the speaker is being lazy and therefore as some redditors have pointed out isnât the most appropriate in this situation. For a teaser text, it would be better to use âhave you guessedâŚ?â or âcan you guessâŚ?â instead of âguessedâŚ?â
Takeaway: Could it be used and be correct? Yes
Is it the best or the most appropriate choice for this situation? Nope, not at all
drobson70â˘
Thereâs literally nothing wrong with this.
Itâs leaning more towards casual conversation type of speaking but there is nothing wrong with this
MaddoxJKingsleyâ˘
I think the sentence stands out primarily just because âguess whoâ is such a strong collocation. It simply feels strange to see âguessedâ there; it's incredibly unexpected, and doesn't read natutally here at all.
My verdict is that the sentence is technically grammatical if there's context, but using it as a tagline for a show like this sounds horrible... so itâs leaning back around to being wrong.
This isn't even mentioning that these types of rhetorical questions (with participle forms) posed to a viewer always sound like a commercial. ("Read any good books lately? We haven't either! And that's why we've invented BlahBlah...")
Sea-West3580â˘
Itâs technically correct, but within the context âguessed who just moved inâ is not what any native speaker would say or assume. It is far more likely that someone would ask say âguess who just moved in.â Especially as teaser text, it would be very strange for it to be âguessedâ
300_20_2â˘
Vaguely (and I'm trying to be super vague) North American English speaker here, I think it would only work if the context was that us as the audience were given something like a challenge to guess who these people were going to be. Like others have pointed out, the words "have you" might have been omitted to sound more hip and cool. The only other option I can think of is that it was meant as a question like "guess what?"
Knackersacâ˘
You could argue that it's correct but at the end of the day it's clumsy.
alistofthingsIhateâ˘
I should be âguessâ instead of âguessedâ, and I donât think you would put a question mark at the end of the first sentence.
Hljoumurâ˘
I have two thoughts:
âGuessed who just moved in?â in this specific context is ungrammatical. Thereâre times English colloquially drops pronouns, and this isnât one of them. You also never use sentences beginning with the phrase âguess whoâ in the past tense. Itâs a set phrase.
My second is maybe they got âguessedâ and âguestâ mixed up. Itâs a bit of a stretch, but just a thought, either because the person writing this got them mixed up, or, sadly, AI detected it wrong.